Secure access: XenMan uses the highly secure SSH tunneling for
communicating with the remote Xen servers.
Provisioning: It provides a powerful Image Store provisioning SDK so you
can define and execute your own Virtual Machine images and provisioning
schemes. We will explore the provisioning capabilities of XenMan in
Chapter 8.
Domain Consoles: You can connect to the consoles of your local or remote
domains easily with one click.
Virtual Machine Manager
The Virtual Machine manager (virt-manager) is another graphical management
application for virtual machines. It provides a dashboard view of currently running
domains and their statistics. It also contains an embedded VNC client viewer that
enables you to connect to a guest domain and display its full graphical console.
It also comes with a command line tool called virt-install that can be used for
provisioning new virtual machines. Virt-manager is intended to be used with any
virtualization, not just Xen. However, currently Xen, Qemu, and KVM are the only
supported hypervisors. In this section we will install virt-manager and examine its
capabilities for managing Xen.
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Time for Action??”Running virt-manager
virt-manager is an application that is well integrated with the Xen support provided
in Fedora Core 6, and is available in the Fedora repositories. Installing Xen in Fedora
Core automatically installs virt-manager for you. This means that you will be using
Fedora Core's Xen packages instead of Xen compiled from the Xensource mercurial
repository.